Shloka 48
अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः
Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’
एवमेव किलैतानि प्रियाण्येवाप्रियाणि च । जीवेषु परिवर्तने दुःखानि च सुखानि च,इस प्रकार जीवोंको प्रिय-अप्रिय और सुख-दुःखकी प्राप्ति बार-बार क्रमसे होती ही रहती है, इसमें संदेह नहीं है
evam eva kila etāni priyāṇy evāpriyāṇi ca | jīveṣu parivartane duḥkhāni ca sukhāni ca ||
Le brāhmane dit : Ainsi en est-il : parmi les êtres, dans la rotation des conditions de l’existence, ce qui est cher et ce qui ne l’est pas—douleur et bonheur tout ensemble—reviennent encore et encore selon leur juste succession. De cela, point de doute.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Life for all beings is marked by inevitable alternation: pleasant and unpleasant experiences, happiness and sorrow, recur in sequence. The ethical implication is steadiness and non-attachment—one should not be intoxicated by pleasure nor crushed by pain, recognizing both as transient turns in the cycle.
In the didactic setting of the Śānti Parva, a Brahmin speaker is instructing the listener by stating a general truth about worldly existence: experiences rotate and return, so one should understand the pattern of change rather than cling to any single phase.